Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-10-24

gloom and Frightening the forehead, and
loosening the pinched look about the
NOSTRIL AND LIP,
and makes you somewhat like God him
self. He is omnipotence, and we cannot
copy that. He is independent of all the
universe, and we cannot copy that. He
is creative, and we cannot copy that. He
is omnipresent, and we cannot copy that.
But he forgiVes with broad sweep all
faults, and al neglects, and all insults,
and all wrong doing, and IN that we may
copy him with mighty success. Go har.,
ness that sublime action of your soul to
an autumnal sunset, the hour when the
gate OF heaven opens to let the day pass
into the eternities, and some of the
glories escape this way through the brief
opening. We talk about the Italian sun
sets, and sunset amid the Apprentices, and
sunset amid the Corderillas. But will
tell you how you may see q grander sun
set than any mere lover of nature ever
beheld; that is by fiinging into it AL
your hatreds and animosities, and let the
horses of fire trample them, and the
chariot OF fire roll over them,
and the spesrmen of fire
stab them, and the beach OF fire consume
them, and the pillows OF fire oxerwhelm
them. The sublimest thing Goa does is
the sunset. The sublimest thing you can
do is forgiveness. Along the glowing
banks of this coming eventide let the d.
vine ana the human be concurrent.
Again: We should not LIT the sun 60
down on our wrath because 1t is Of little
importance what the world says of you
Or does TO you when you have the sff1uent
God OF the sunset as your provider and
defender. People talk as though it were
fixed spectacle OF nature ard always the
same. But no one ever saw two sunsets
alike, and If the world has existed 5000
years, there have been about 2, 100, 900
sunsets, each Of them as distinct from all
THE OTHER PICTURE
in the gallery Of the sky as Titisn's "Lsst
Supper" Rubens' "Descent from the
Cross" Raphsers TRANSPORTATION"
ana Michael Augelo's "Last Judgment, I"
are distinct from each other. II that Ged
OF such infinite resources that he canfput
on the wall Of the sky each night more
than the Louvre, and the Luxembourg,
and the Vatican, and the Dresden, and
Venetian galleries all in one, is my God
and your God, our provider and protector,
what is the use of our worrying about
any human sntagonism? If We are mis-
interpreted, the God of the many colored
sunset can put the right color on our &C
ton. If He can sfford to hang such mas
terpieces over the outside wal Of heaven
and have them O0literated in AN hour,
He must be very rich in resources, and
Can put rs through in safety. Ii all the
gsrniture of the western heavens at even
tide is but the upholstery of one of the
windows Of our future home, what small
business for us to be chasing enemies!
Let not this Sabbath sun go down upon
your wrath.
Mahomet said: s'The sword is the key
of heaven and hell, drop Of blood shed
is better than fasting, and wounds in the
day of Judgment respondent IS vermill-
ion, anu odoriferous as musk But, my
hearers, In the last day we will fad Just
the opposite OF that to. be true, and that
the sword never unlocks heaven, and that
he who heals wounds is greater than he
who makes them, and that on the same
ring are two keys; Gods forgiveness of
Us and our forgiveness OF enemies, and
these two keys unlock Paradise.
And now l wish for all of you a beauti-
full sunset in your earthly existence.
With some OF you it has been
A LONG DAY
of trouble, and with others Of you 1t will
be far from calm. When the sun rose at
6 O'Clock it was the morning of youth,
aud fair day was prophesied, but by the
time the MONDAY of mid-life had come
and the clock of your earthly existence
had struck twelve, cloud racks gathered
and tempest beloved in the track of
tempest. But as the evening of old age
approaches pray God the skies may
brighten and the clouds be piled up into
pillars, as of celestial temples to which
you 60, or move as with mounted cohorts
come to take you home. And as you sink
out of sight below the horizon, may there
be q radiance of Christian example linger-
ing long after you are gone, and on the
heavens be written in letters of sapphire,
and on the waters in letters Of opal. and
on the hills in letters of emerald: "Thy
sun shall no more go down, neither shall
thy moon withdraw ITSELF for the Lord
shsll be thine everlasting light and the
days of thy mourning shall be snded.n
So shall the sunset of earth become the
sunrise OF heaven.